Rayne Rice Birds Hoodie - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - Louisiana Size:XL The Bowling Green Barons played

The Bowling Green Barons played in the Class D Kitty League from 1939 until the league’s suspension in 1942

with thousands more turned away

the Eagles were the class of the Big State League in 1952

then running away with the 1906 pennant behind Hub Perdue's 25 wins

Rayne Rice Birds Hoodie - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - Louisiana Size:XL The Bowling Green Barons playedThe Rayne Rice Birds, based in Rayne, Louisiana, carried one of the most distinctive nicknames the Evangeline League ever produced. The name refers to the bobolink, a migratory songbird that descended on Louisiana's rice fields each autumn in enormous flocks, devastating crops. Rayne farmers and locals had called the bird the "rice bird" for generations, and Rayne itself sat deep in Acadia Parish rice country, making the name an entirely natural